Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-11-03


Debert Guilds, the young man arrested
for stealing $500 from Mrs. Sweet of Elm
wood, Tuscola county, has been bound
over to the circuit court by Justice Fan
! Gers His father furnished bill in $500
The Grand Trunk railroad case of
| Brush ct. al. VS.. Brooks et al. has been
appealed to the supreme court from the
jackson circuit court. Judgment for
20 4S6 23 lad been rendered In the lower
court.
The attorney generals Office in the
state capitol are now located near the en-
trance to the law library. The room
formerly Q. cupied by him will be added
to the suit of the judges of the supreme
court.
Mrs. Jennie Stanton took an overdose
of morphine at Beekman s camp, on Hub
bard Lake, and died few hours later.
No reason Is known why she should have
taken the drug Her parents live at
Lapeer.
DR.. Waite the Brighton dentist accused
of the death of Ida Nj. Lee, dressmaker
of that village, has been found guilty OF
manslaughter, as charged in the informa-
ton. Waits attorney will move for a
new trial.
In the case of Mrs Sarah May against
Genesee county for infringement of her
Jail lock patent the supervisors have voted
TO accept the proposition of her attorney
to settle for $780, ca h party paying their
own costs.
IL transpires that the man Hall, burned
at Hudson recently, may not have been
Hall, but somebody else, as his stories TO
different parties Indicate that he had
numler of names which he applied to him
self at pleas IRE.
Mrs. l.. A. r. Service of Lansing has
brought suit for $40, 900 against the ID. L..
q N railroad company. She sustained
serious injury while alighting from
train, and while acting under the advice
of the conductor.
Andrew Billiard, barber OF Essexville
Bay county, has been arrested charged
with making and passing counterfeit
money. A complete outfit for making
silver dollars and 81 in spurious coin were
in his possession.
President Cleveland has granted par
don to Henry G. Curkendall convicted in
| the federal court at Grand Rapids for hav-
| ing counterfeit coin in his possession, and
sentenced to four years in the Detroit
house of correction.
The directors Of the Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance company OF Hillsdale coun-
ty have elected Sidney Green of Pittsford
president and treasurer of the company to
fill the vacancy caused by the death Of
Hon. Chas. ID. Luce.
Mrs. Gregg OF Grand Rapids recently
whipped her daughter In an inhuman
manner, for which she was fined. The
Aao or,A In Nl.nvf
ties refuse TO assist the mother In her
search for the missing girl
The second bids for agricultural college
buildings at Lansing were opened the
other day. and found TO be in excess Of APP
preparation. The matter has been re-
ferred to Col. McCreary and the secretary
of the board Of agriculture.
William Hogan, convict in Jackson
prison, hid under the floor the other day,
intending t. leave the prison that night.
His plans were frustrated, however, and
now William goes about his work with a
ball and chain attachment
Butch" Kennedy was instantly killed.
and his brother VIII MORALLY wounded by
desperadoes near San Antonio, Texas, the
other day. They were telegraph operators
and formerly lived in Grand Rapids. Their
mother now lives in Jackson.
A big vein of gas has been struck on the
farm of Matthew Erwin. in Bloomfield,
Oakland county, about II miles from De-
troit. The force of the gas Is so great that
sand and large rocks are thrown into the
air a distance Of over 100 feet
A boy named Bolt was accidentally
wound around shaft in the Warren
featherbone factory at Three Oaks and his
left arm broken in several places and
nearly torn off, parts of the bone protrud-
ing through the flesh. IL Is thought he
will recover.
The attorney general OF Indiana has
commenced suit against the Mutual aid
insurance company of Elkhart holding
| that the company Is q fraud. j. r. Duel
and Geo. Gatusha, who organized the
company, are said TO have been legislated
out of Michigan.
Frank ii. Cobb Of Hudson, member Of
Berdan's sharpshooters, has just learned
whereabouts of confederate Sergt VIM. II.
Saunders of Alabama, who saved his life
on battlefield of the Wilderness. Their
correspondence In the Hudson Gazette Is
| highly entertaining.
Mrs. John b. Packard, wife of a vel
known conductor on the F. & T. M. road
died suddenly Of apoplexy the other night.
Her husband had Just come home and re-
tired when he was awakened by his wife
struggling for breath. She died before he
| could summon medical aid.
DR.. John ii. Montgomery, one of the
pioneers OF Calhoun county, died at his
late residence in Marshall, October 25.
The immediate eau Of his death was a
cbnnk of porn1ycie cuetoiuad fha SATURDAY.
previous. Ills age was II years, over so
Of which he resided in Marshall.
Mrs. j. Krutzmann, the Saginaw wom-
an who thought she had a snake In her
stomach. is dead. An autopsy showed
that she had suffered from chronic In
flammatiton of the stomach, and her i'm
agination had supplied the reptile which
had literally Mortified her to death.
CHARLES Williams and Jim Conkey en-
gagged In drunken fight at a lumber
camp thirteen miles north of Ishpeming
over cook. Williams had gained the
best Of the fight, when Conkey stabbed
him twice in the left side. The vi tim Is
in the hospital and will die The murderer
was arrested.
The state board OF forestry, authorized
by act OF recent legislature has been or
ganized. Officers: President, Franklin
Wells, Constantine; secretary, Henry G.
Reynolds, agricultural college; auditor.
! VIM. b. McCreary, Flint; directors, Chas.
w. Garfield, Grand Rapids, and w. J.
Beal, agricultural college.
Rev. FIR. Baart of Marshall has returned
from Rome. There was an immense
crowd at the depot on bis arrival A
brass band was in attendance, ard the